CVE-2015-6938: XSS
First published: Wed Sep 02 2015(Updated: )
A flaw was found in IPython's notebook handling: Local folder name was used in HTML templates without escaping, allowing XSS in said pages by carefully crafting folder name and URL to access it. Original report: <a href="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474">http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474</a> Upstream Patches: 3.x: <a href="https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892">https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892</a> 4.0.x: <a href="https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3">https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3</a> 4.x: <a href="https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed">https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed</a>
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Jupyter Notebook | =4.0.0 | |
| Jupyter Notebook | =4.0.1 | |
| Jupyter Notebook | =4.0.2 | |
| Jupyter Notebook | =4.0.3 | |
| Jupyter Notebook | =4.0.4 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =21 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =22 | |
| Fedoraproject Fedora | =23 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =13.1 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =13.2 | |
| IPython Notebook | <=3.2.1 | |
| redhat/ipython | <4.0.5 | 4.0.5 |
| redhat/ipython | <4.1 | 4.1 |
| redhat/ipython | <3.2.2 | 3.2.2 |
| pip/ipython | <=3.2.1 | 3.2.2 |
| pip/notebook | >=4.0.0<=4.0.4 | 4.0.5 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405
- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892
- https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed
- https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1259406
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1259407
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6938
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4vwq-x64q-j4cj (Advisory)
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ipython/PYSEC-2015-24.yaml
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/notebook/PYSEC-2015-26.yaml
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